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I didn’t expect a global pandemic either. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody is forcing anybody to house people for free. Sure, you can’t evict, b

I didn’t expect a global pandemic either. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody is forcing anybody to house people for free. Sure, you can’t evict, but you can sell your property and let that be someone else’s problem. The fact is, the price of rental properties didn’t crash, which means the majority of landlords didn’t mind the situation they were in all that much. I don’t know whether that’s because most people paid rent, most landlords didn’t mind not getting rent, or that there’s lots of money sloshing around looking for investment opportunities; I suspect it’s a mix of the first and third.

gameman144 5y ago
> Nobody is forcing anybody to house people for free. Sure, you can’t evict, but you can sell your property and let that be someone else’s problem. This seems pretty disingenuous. On the surface level it's obviously true, but that same logic applies to anything that people are obligated to do. Like, I'm not forced to wear a seatbelt, but if I commute an hour-and-a-half from the boonies to my business each day, there's no reasonable alternative for the average person that doesn't completely uproot their life. I could definitely move to a new house or start up a new business closer to home, but I imagine most reasonable folks would say "Yeah, you kind of have to just wear your seatbelt now".